Roy L. Brooks
Roy L. Brooks is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego in California and the author of Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations.
Roy L. Brooks is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego in California and the author of Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations.
Ruby Bridges Hall founded the Ruby Bridges Foundation in 1999 out of her experience in 1960 as the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school. The foundation, based in New Orleans, promotes tolerance, respect and acceptance of differences. She is also co-chair of A Campaign for Forgiveness Research.
The Awareness Center was the Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault, an international organization that addresses sexual violence in Jewish communities. It had a certification program for rabbis interested in working with victims of sexual violence. It closed in 2014, but the site is still provided for educational and historical purposes.
The Muslim Women’s League is a nonprofit organization that works to improve the status of women in the American Muslim community. Part of its mission is to create awareness about domestic violence within the American Muslim Community. It is based in Los Angeles.
The Peaceful Families Project produces workshops nationwide on domestic violence from a Muslim perspective. The organization is based in Great Falls, Virginia. Lina Hashem is president.
Sakhi for South Asian Women is a community-based organization in the New York metropolitan area committed to ending violence against women of South Asian origin. Contact executive director Kavita Mehra.
Read a Nov. 13, 2008, story in The Forward, a Jewish weekly, “Black, Jewish Vote for Obama May Signal a Renewed Tie: But the Historic Allies Still Disagree on Many Issues.”
Anthony B. Bradley is a research fellow with the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty, based in Grand Rapids, Mich. Bradley has written that raising the minimum wage hurts teens and low-skilled minorities. He has linked the Black Lives Matter movement to Christianity in a commentary.
Read the 2007 report by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency about the differing treatment of juvenile offenders according to race.